Zutto Suki Datta Anata ga…. - Oneshot

[IceAlchemist0]

For him losing Original purpose,
I will add something to your version of "original purpose" :
"to improve himself to be worthy of the woman he’s in love with" so they can be together in the end.

And it that case, it really depends if two years post initial confession (so they night she cheated on him), they are together or not.
If they are, please excuse me, I was wrong about that.
If they are not for, I will say it again, MC lost his initial purpose. Even by accepting his explanation the night just after the date, you would tell me in 18 months and everything he had to achieve to get a award while being on TV, that he still didn't "achieved result that he could be proud of using his own abilities" according his own word, then I say it's bullshit, our protagonist learn the joy of progress and prioritized that over the initial goal. I would like to add he could have still continued with his self-improvement at work while going out with her.

For the lack of self-esteem, It not about his quest for self improvement, not at all.
I'm sorry if I made it sound that way, it's for 3 others reasons, 2 hypothetical or based on my assumptions, and the last far more justified :

- 1 = his explanation after there first date that his success is because of others and coincidence sounded far too much like someone with imposter syndrome.
But maybe that just me.

- 2 = 2 years post initial confession, the night he got his award, I had the assumption they still aren't together, so like I said earlier, if after everything he did in his job to get a award on Live TV, he still feels he is still not enough to officially asked her out, then Yep there really is a problem with self-esteem.
But maybe my assumption is wrong and they were already together.

- 3 (the true reason) : his response for after he found them that night. Even if it were a coping mechanism, he justified what she did (whether they were going out or not at that time) by "it's not her fault, I'm the one in the wrong, it's because I'm still not enough." He never held her responsable when he obviously should, and still tried to run after her for years after that night until he became editor-in-chief and still try afterwards. If you tell me he don't have serious self-esteem problems that he would excuse someone to trample his heart (if not blatantly cheated on him) and make it his own fault, please explain. It's not a rethorical question, please explain it to me, I don't understand.


And once again, with my previous comment if I made it sound like that his self-improvement make at fault for getting destroyed like that, it wasn't what I meant, and for that I will add another thing :
I think that even in an alternate version where they would officially get together after their date 6 months after his confession, she would still end up cheating on him.
Simple reasoning, even in the case they would have got together, she is the one who taught him that he had bring result in his job to be worthy of her so he would have still strived to be better.
Like we saw in the story, he is good, so he would have gone on on being better than and outclassed her and his colleague so they would still ended feeling inferior to him.
The two sharing the same feeling would still seeing eachother to shared their struggles, instead of working on it.
And as MC go higher and higher than them. Which would have brought them to the same state that night.

So finally I will say who I BLAME in order :

- Yuzuki is most to blame by a land slide, she is the one who made Haruki go to that route, start pouting when he started becoming better than him a got a problem with it, and then destroyed him because she couldn't accept it.

For the two others it depends of several assumptions =
A : MC asked her out between their first date and that sad night and they were together since then.
B : Haruki and Yuzuki weren't just colleagues who had started at the same time but friends

If A and B are false, I can say nothing to Yuzuki, he like the woman, 2 years earlier he helped his colleague to be with her yet he has done nothing since then. Game is game.
If either A or B is true, he is a bastard, for either sleeping with his friend's dream girl, or the girlfriend of someone he knew.
And if Both assumptions are true, he is a fucking monster.

For Haruki, our protagonist, even if nothing he has done make him deserved that, if A is not true, I will complain "why did he play with his food when it was ready to be eaten."
And I would still say that his lack of self-esteem is a fault when after everything she has done to him, he still doesn't understand that she doesn't deserve him.

Thanks you very much if you read my response until here.

Have a great day/evening/night.

If this is your explanation, then you are entirely wrong. Let's break this down using your logic. Even if he proved himself and decided to start a relationship with her, it wouldn’t change the fact that she was jealous of his success. The night he received the award, she was in the conference room with his rival, upset over his achievement and his rise in status. Her jealousy was clear. So, even if they had entered a relationship, that jealousy would persist, making the relationship toxic. Why? Because she didn’t support his success.

If she was stagnant while he was climbing the ranks, it means her insecurities were unresolved. Instead of confronting her internal struggles, she chose to hurt him by relying on his rival and even sleeping with him, all to make the main character feel pain because she was hurting herself. You cannot blame the main character for improving himself when the woman he loved was jealous of his success. Criticizing him for that makes no sense.

If he said, “I want to prove myself to you. I want to achieve this with my own hands,” it was true. The chapter explicitly shows him seeking help from his rival, learning from him, and applying that knowledge to achieve success and gain recognition. His success was built on effort, collaboration, and growth—there’s no fault in that. Wanting to prove himself with his own hands is perfectly valid.

The real issue lies with her. She wanted to be with him not because she supported him, but because his success made her feel inadequate. She thought being with him could stop his growth while she remained stagnant. She wasn’t improving, wasn’t going anywhere, and couldn’t keep up with him as he surpassed her. She was initially his senpai and taught him the ropes, but now, he has far exceeded her, progressing in ways she can’t match.

Trying to argue that he could have done all this while being with her doesn’t change the core issue: she was jealous of his success, and that jealousy would always poison the relationship.


Your explanation continues to unfairly blame Haruki for his success, disregarding Tsukino's actions. If she truly cared for him, she wouldn't have had sex with his rival while he watched. Even though they weren't in a relationship, her actions were morally wrong and intended to hurt him out of spite and jealousy. She sought solace in his rival not out of affection but to alleviate her own pain, disregarding the harm it caused Haruki. Both she and the rival were envious of Haruki's achievements, leading them to conspire against him. Therefore, if you're assigning blame to the rival, she bears equal, if not greater, responsibility for her reprehensible actions.b

 

[maylsmallow]

 

[maylsmallow]

LMAO wtf is this shit HAHAHAHAHHAHAH
While reading at the end, it seems to me like, "Oh, you feeling inferior to him? But you going to him? Let's fuck then." Anyway, I feel this is the author's wet dream or something.
Never cook again author-san


Also, bro needs to move on and find someone MORE BETTER than chasing someone who's jealous or can't support him at his peak of success.

 

[WJ_PK]

Wow all three of these people have super problems and two of these people have super duper problems

 

[jmgaling0924]

Everywhere i go,i see this genre

 

[Belveda01]

Its not NTR but its hurt badly more than NTR cause she betray his promise, Man i hope mc just got promoted higher than her and kick her ass out and being toxic boss to his friend

 

[alexthestupidn]

MC is a self-centered prick who doesn't even care or check on the person he "supposedly love" one-sidedly, like yeah, your love interest is an object of desire, an object of worship and not a real person with feelings and struggle, i have no pity, honestly, never even bothered to fucking check on her. Meanwhile the girl is an insecure fucking loser, not wanting to be one upped so she settle for the person on her strike range. The shitty forehead honestly just fell in love with the girl, 6 months of putting up with a bitch like that is commendable, probably fucking bolted once he get that nut out and realize what a train wreck the girl is, hence you don't see him near her.

Honestly MC dodged a bullet, cause she will be a fucking pain in the ass to deal with, someone who will pick a fight at every turn and hurl vitriol and hurtful words to make her inadequacy just a bit more tolerable to herself. Pain and traumas remain but it will heal, the girl has a self awareness that she's a bad person, but zero desire to be a better person. Truly the villain of the story.

 

[IceAlchemist0]

MC is a self-centered prick who doesn't even care or check on the person he "supposedly love" one-sidedly, like yeah, your love interest is an object of desire, an object of worship and not a real person with feelings and struggle, i have no pity, honestly, never even bothered to fucking check on her. Meanwhile the girl is an insecure fucking loser, not wanting to be one upped so she settle for the person on her strike range. The shitty forehead honestly just fell in love with the girl, 6 months of putting up with a bitch like that is commendable, probably fucking bolted once he get that nut out and realize what a train wreck the girl is, hence you don't see him near her.

Honestly MC dodged a bullet, cause she will be a fucking pain in the ass to deal with, someone who will pick a fight at every turn and hurl vitriol and hurtful words to make her inadequacy just a bit more tolerable to herself. Pain and traumas remain but it will heal, the girl has a self awareness that she's a bad person, but zero desire to be a better person. Truly the villain of the story.

This is a dumb take. How is the MC self-centered when, after confessing his feelings to the woman he was in love with, Tsukino, she told him she wouldn’t be in a relationship with him because it would interfere with his job? She then pointed out that in the four years he’d been at his job, he hadn’t progressed, while his rival, whom she trained, was being called the next ace. She chose to highlight his rival’s accomplishment and throw it in his face, making it clear that he wasn’t good enough. It was after hearing that that he asked her, “If I were to improve myself, would you consider us being in a relationship?” She replied, “I don’t know about being in a relationship, but we can talk about some things.” He saw that as confirmation to try harder.

The very next day, he approached his rival, explained his reasons, and asked for his help. Though his rival was hesitant at first, he eventually agreed. Six months later, the MC was making real progress, stepping up in his job and gaining recognition. When Tsukino saw this, she tried to ask him out, saying, “Oh, we can be in a relationship now.” But he asked her, “Could you wait?” He felt like he hadn’t done anything to progress with his own hands. Everything he had accomplished so far was because he needed help, and he wanted to prove his worthiness with his own hands before committing to a relationship.

Meanwhile, Tsukino turned to his rival, who was also jealous of the MC’s success. They began to bond over their shared envy of the MC’s achievements. The night the MC caught them sleeping together, it was after they had bonded over their mutual jealousy of him receiving an award for his success.

That is not self-centered. It’s the exact opposite. It’s not his fault she became stagnant in her job, got jealous of his success, and didn’t communicate her problems to him—instead, she turned to his rival. This is genuinely one of the dumbest takes I’ve ever read.

Because not once do you ask, well, why didn’t she tell him that he was good enough? Why didn’t she at any point in time say, “Hey, I’m proud of you for succeeding at your job”? Why didn’t she tell him what she was going through? Why didn’t she ever say that he was worthy of her? If she truly loved him, she wouldn’t be jealous of him. She would celebrate his success. She wouldn’t envy anything he was trying to accomplish, especially since he was doing it for her.

What’s crazy is Tsukino acknowledges that she’s a bad person because she knew everything he was trying to accomplish was for her, and she was still jealous of his success. She was so jealous that she chose to sleep with his rival. And when she noticed that he was standing in the doorway, she kept going. She kept going because she wanted him to hurt, because she was hurting.

If anybody is self-centered, it’s her, because that type of behavior is destructive, and she didn’t give a flying fuck about him when she did it. So to say that he is self-centered is completely wrong. You completely missed the mark on this.